Family for sale
A small hole in a condom back in 1980, and Xav is conceived. Ironic when you know that Oscar owns a sex shop. Oscar is the father. Typhaine, the mother, is a disinherited bourgeois. Since the arrival of Petra, Typhaine can’t stop throwing herself against the wall to express her discomfort. Petra is Oscar’s mistress. Xav has tried getting used to his family, but eighteen years later, he’s had enough.
| Genre | Comedy |
| Formats | DCP, Beta, HDCam |
| Language | Français |
| Subtitles | Néerlandais, anglais |
| Production | Stenola Productions |
| Partners | UFund - UShort, The cinema and audiovisual center of the Wallonia-Brussels Federation, RTBF (Belgian television) |
| International sales | Origine Films - Olivier Berlemont |
“Devoted friend, unruly student, misunderstood son—that’s how my family and friends described me. The tiresome feeling of always being right defined the boundaries between me and the world. As a teenager, navigating these different spheres while keeping everyone happy isn’t easy when you want to live life on your own terms. Every prohibition, every obstacle to my freedom, reinforced the idea that at eighteen, I would break free from my gilded cage.
With *Family for Sale*, I decided to revisit these memories and give visual form to the incomprehension I felt watching the adult world unfold. This diary depicts an atmosphere far removed from my own experience: my father didn’t own a sex shop, and my mother didn’t self-harm. However, I viewed my loved ones with a distance that rivals that between Xav and his family.”
Sébastien Petretti
Crew
| Director | Sébastien Petretti |
| Script | Sébastien Petretti, Samuel Malhoure |
| Photography | Sylvain Freyens |
| Sound | Pierre Pinteaux, Nicolas Pibre |
| Location desginer | Pauline Chardon |
| Editing | Mathieu Toulemonde |
| Sound editing | Julien Mizac |
| Mix | Laurent Martin |
| Grading | Ghislain Rio |
| Original music | Clive Govinden, Simon Dusausoy |
| Producers | Anton Iffland Stettner, Eva Kuperman |
| Supported by | Euroconnection 2012 (Festival de Clermont Ferrand) |
Cast
| Xav (adult) | Aurélien Ringelheim |
| Oscar | François-Michel Van der Rest |
| Typhaine (adult) | Françoise Berlanger |
| Xav (child) | Jules Brunet |
| Petra | Chloé De Grom |
| Typhaine (young) | Aurélia Bonta |
Festivals
| United Kingdom | Cardiff Mini Film Festival |
| USA | Farm Film Festival |
| USA | Hollywood Comedy Shorts Film Festival |
| United Kingdom | Indie Flicks |
| Germany | 12th Pornfilmfestival Berlin |
| Portugal | Porto 7th International Short Film Festival |
| Croatia | Postira Seaside Film Festival |
| Italia | Poverarte Festival |
| Italia | React Film Festival |
| India | Smita Patil Documentary and Short Film Festival |
| Malta | Valletta Film Festival |
| USA | Victoria TX Indie Film Fest |
| Canada | Courts d'un soir |
| France | Festival Tournez-court |
| Armenia | Golden Apricot |
| France | Festival Courts en Champagne |
| Belgium | Festival du court métrage d'anderlecht |
| France | Fenêtre sur courts |
| France | Les courts du vendredi |
| Belgium | Nuit du court |
| Belgium | Festimage 2015 |
| Turquia | Izmir International Short Film Festival |
| Belgium | Le jour le plus court |
| Belgium | Brussels short film festival |
| Belgium | Brussels Films Festival |
| United Kingdom | Aesthetica Short Films Festival |